Expression of IdeasVery hardTransition introducing a reinterpretation
Expression of Ideas practice question
The archive's 1790 map shows no bridge at the ford, and historians had taken this to mean none existed. ____ the surveyor's own notebook, found in 2021, records that he omitted the bridge deliberately because it was 'in ruin and not to be relied on' — which means there was one, and that it was already old.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
- A. As it turns out,Correct
- B. Accordingly,
- C. For that reason,
- D. In short,
Answer: A. As it turns out,
New evidence reverses the reading of the old.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. Accordingly,
- The notebook does not follow from the historians' reading.
- C. For that reason,
- Not a consequence.
- D. In short,
- Not a summary.
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